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If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
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The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.
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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
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Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
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